It's ashame that on a video called 'The Promise of Living', playing beautiful music to touching footage of innocent America--citizens enjoying that ideal of the pursuit of happiness (even if only temporarily), that the comments are vitriolic and filled with hatred. Seems a sad juxtaposition to me.
So disheartening to see comments about religion,belief in God and sexual orientation when what should be the emphasis is this incredible American, who found a way to incorporate the spirit of America in his music! He wrote an entire suite around the song, "simple gifts" a shaker melody! He had appreciation for life and living and it shows in his music.I'm sorry that some people can only see other things when they listen to his music, because you're really missing out.
Hey everyone - take a listen to Copland's Walls of Zion. I don't know which one came first, but if you listen to both you can hear the overlap in two completely different settings. Kinda neat!
I literally can't stop crying near the middle of this song, so beautiful :) Thanks Aaron Copland for writing the most emotional song in the world (also my junior year marching band show)
@tfwhaling3: bless you for creating this indescribably beautiful piece of art. I always listen to this piece on Thanksgiving, and I am very touch by the theme of gratitude and trust in the face of obstacles. We need this lesson very much now: to hope and take refuge in our optimism and agressively defend our spirits, and the spirits of our neighbors against the corrosion of sarcasm, fatalism, cynicism. Peace to all on this day of thanks.
According to comments a year ago by the person who uploaded this video, the music was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, but he didn't remember the conductor. It was most likely conducted by Eugene Ormandy. I cannot find this particular version of the song on Napster or iTunes. No one plays the strings so sweetly as this version.
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! I'm playing this piece next week and it's arranged for Wind Ensembles and now listening to the original I now have a better sense of the music!
I have never commented on youtube before, and may never again; however, TFwhaling3, I had to say thank you. I love everything about this video. I really can't say it enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Even for individuals who don't understand classical, and don't understand the influence of folk music, history, etc. in the national identity of music, and the composers who write it, you make it clear through image. Thank you much. I'll show this to everyone.
When I hear a piece of music by Copland, you can hear America in it. Copland knew how to capture the essence of American life in music. No other composer comes close.
I have never listened to classical music. But, this Fall I had to take a course Intro to music and if it was not for that class I most likely would have never listened to this type of music. I mean my favorite movie is Gone With the Wind, but that was as close as I had gotten. Now that I have listened to it I love it after chasing 3 kids around all day and always being on the run. It is great to release the tension!
I play first clarinet. I hated this song when we first started it last year. Detested it. But then I listened to this. And FELL IN LOVE. Then my band director decided not to do it. -___- AND I WAS MAD. ... That's my story. Bye.
The juxtaposition of so much historic "home movie footage" with the music of Aaron Copland's "The Promise of Living" from "The Tender Land" sends a cozy Americana message. While it isn't always cozy in everyday reality, the dream of this coziness of living in America remains for us to pursue in our hearts, minds...and actions toward one another. Thanks for sharing this!!
I just wanted to comment on this video. I marched DCI, so I know this song well from Crown.
This video is possibly the most beautiful accompaniment to this song. Every time I heard The Promise of Living, I think of the American way of life, and the vast landscape that America has.
I just listened to this while reading a wikipedia article on Copland and it gave me goosebumps. THIS song is what Copland is all about,
Our 2011 marching band show features music by Copland, and we are using this as our ballad. It's such a pretty piece and I can't wait until we play it. I play baritone and the beginning part, played here by violins, is a baritone solo, and it might be the prettiest piece of music I've played thus forth.
@RickenbackerBeatles Damn, man you are so lucky, the baritone part in this that piece will be wicked. Where is Johnstown? I want to know in case i get to go see your show. I march euph in the Dripping Springs band, Texas.
People are always what this world is about. The film herein and the music by Copland come close to a new national anthem. I cannot get over the beauty of this piece, or the Americana contained in every note. Copland was a gay man and a jew and I am sure he met up with his share of bullies, yet his music contains hope and love and a thankfulness for the country he lives in....incredible.
When US and Canada were the promise lands of hope and prosperity.
Its a shame that they are now just a landing pads for people who dont want any ties and want to live in their villages and reap all the rewards that the past accomplished.
Damn all the politics and name-calling! Can't we just gather for a few minutes in cyberspace and respect each other? Is this what people travelled thousands of miles over rough seas and fought in wars for...so we can sit on a computer and out-brag and insult one another!
Thank God for America and Aaron Copland. Period. And if you don't like what I say, flame away. I won't bother to answer!
@DaGuitarSaxMan Tell you what. As soon as the hypocritical religious sycophants STOP co-opting and STOP trying to shove their myths about invisible deities down my throat, I will stop being a "prick". Funny. When someone tries to co-opt and attribute something to their invisible murderer in the sky, totally ignoring EVERYTHING this composer ACTUALLY stood for, you call me the prick. Stop being a hypocrite and I shall stop being a "prick"
@rmpryor I don't see where religion was being shoved down your throat here, but if you want to play this game. "invisible murderer in the sky", Carbon Monoxide is a deadly gas(murderer) that you can't see (invisible) and is in the air (the sky). Now does someone like God seem far fetched? I am not shoving it down on you, but if you are going to be a blatant jerk about it all then I will fight with logic. Want a list of things that you can't see but believe in? Gravity, Air, etc...
@bruiserND Well, I AM A COMBAT Veteran AND I don't believe for a minute that your son or I went down range just for oil. Plus, the constitution says, "With Permission from congress." Well, Bush had permission from congress and that is what every concervative I meet with twice a month says. so you STFU. I also work with sodiers on getting back into normal life when they return.
four unconstitutional wars fought simultaneously over oil ....end the Empire now one of 18 returning U.S. veterans, on average, commits suicide each day.
Just perfect. Just absolutely perfect. This could be the best piece of American music ever made. And the video is appropriate. Be sure to catch TPOL on the RCA collection with The Party Scene preceding it. Both come from the opera The Tender Land.
I saw the Paul Hill Chorale perform The Promise of Living at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 1978. I was prepared for it but I saw many adults (men especially) who were reduced to tears by the time it ended. The choral version will always be more stirring than the purely orchestral rendition.
I thought I was familiar with all of Copland's music, but this beautiful collage introduced me to something new. By the way, THIS IS NOT A "SONG!". THERE WAS NO SINGING.
whenever I have hours and hours of papers to write, THIS SONG reminds me how great life is and how it's totally worth every hour of work for those genuinely blissful moments. Perfectly illustrated with the old footage. Thank you!
Congratulations, a lovely and effective montage to this score. The hymn "Walls of Zion" as an underpinning in the bass is very moving.
{To wallow in the hardship of one particular minority of those eras is egocentric and self-indulgent. Copland, son of Latvian Jewish emigrees, grew up in Brooklyn and was homosexual. Ergo, Let's have no more talk smack about black people, other minorities or lower classes back when... 99% of all people had it 'bad' if measured to current standards.}
Have to come back to this video every now and then - the music and images tell a story far too profound for me to grasp - if I didn't see the title to Copland's song it is as though I would have been able to guess it
Have to come back to this video every now and then - the music and images tell a story far too profound for me to grasp - if I didn't see the title to Copland's song it is as though I would have been able to guess it
Have to come back to this video every now and then - the music and images tell a story far too profound for me to grasp - if I didn't see the title to Copland's song it is as though I would have been able to guess it
Have to come back to this video every now and then - the music and images tell a story far too profound for me to grasp - if I didn't see the title to Copland's song it is as though I would have been able to guess it
questa musica è di una incomparabile bellezza, intrisa di una dolce memoria nostalgica, un insieme di luce verso un orizzonte ormai lontano e fuggito...
Wonderful, nostalgic pictures--- except if you were black or a person of color back then. A very different life for them.. They weren't allowed to sit in the good seats of those old trains; were banned from getting in many of those old carnivals and other places.
Let';s remember the good times, but don't forget they were always so good for all Americans.
@divawriter you just can't enjoy the music and visuals, can you? 2 presidents have made formal apologies, laws were abolished, overturned or re-written...there's an entire month devoted to the movement and that's still not enough? Sorry....this is one of my favorite pieces of music and I thought the collage of visuals was very cool....and then I saw that someone simply HAD to inject a bit of cynisism...
Music like this is what America is about...I hear American song and singing here...I hear Stephen Foster and Charles Ives and Henry Thoreau and I feel the movement of time immemorial from Slavery Days to the camaraderie of World War 2 and the aftermath of 911. I hear the man and the woman and and think of the books of Thornton Wilder and Jack Kerouac. Copland understood something that is essential and basic about the American and he put it into notes.
such a beautiful song. i cry everytime i hear this piece. i played this 3 years ago as the ballad with my high school marching band. Carolina Crown couldn't have done a better job with it in 09 in my opinion.
Saw this with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Dallas. What a performance, you should have heard the audience roar when it finished. Probably not a dry eye in the great symphony hall. If this music does not wake us up, nothing ever will.
I'm coming in late but I see references to the '84 Santa Clara Vanguard show. We saw it at Spartan Stadium, right at the 50, half-way up the stands. Just utterly fantastic and highly emotional.
Stunningly beautiful. I haven't been touched this deeply in a long time. The combination of the film footage and music struck me in ways I thought I had lost a while ago.
@Tedtastic7 That is so lame!!!!! Ughhhhh, more like "The American West" Cadets 1996. All the classical buffs are like "What the hell are they talking about"
I'm just impressed by how universally well received this video is, not one person is able to dislike this video. I have never seen one with over 60,000 views and not a single dislike. That alone conveys what we, as Americans, truly wish for in our hearts. Losing all of our material, but keeping the ones we love close, and the promise of living closest of all. With Thanksgiving.
Heard this with the great Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Dallas, at symphony hall.
The orchestra really roared at the end of this great Copland work. Hearing all those instruments working together to the great climax of this piece was heart touching.
The audience roared at the end, as the symphony all stood.
It's simply Copland. Look, learn, and love his mood. Feel America, for all the promises our grandparents wanted to give us. Don't let them down, all they gave.
I find it so bittersweet that for so many, this is so "American", representing of values "long gone by", yet does anyone here realize Copeland himself was gay? I am not suggesting by any means this fact undermines his work-but rather enriches it.
I won't, for what its worth. Christian or not, one isjudged by what they do in this world. Plus the bible says we shouldn't be judging in the first place. Thank you for the music Copland!
Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
@rrichmond72 - Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
This is such a beautiful piece, very touching. Thanks for sharing. We all need to reflect and live simple and appreciate what we all have in these times of great stress. The dogs at the end really touch our hearts, as I look at my beautiful Golden and give him a big hug. Thanks again.
It's ashame that on a video called 'The Promise of Living', playing beautiful music to touching footage of innocent America--citizens enjoying that ideal of the pursuit of happiness (even if only temporarily), that the comments are vitriolic and filled with hatred. Seems a sad juxtaposition to me.
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I want this video on my 9000 phone.
ynardhowar1229 5 days ago
We played this video at my father's funeral today.
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So disheartening to see comments about religion,belief in God and sexual orientation when what should be the emphasis is this incredible American, who found a way to incorporate the spirit of America in his music! He wrote an entire suite around the song, "simple gifts" a shaker melody! He had appreciation for life and living and it shows in his music.I'm sorry that some people can only see other things when they listen to his music, because you're really missing out.
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Hey everyone - take a listen to Copland's Walls of Zion. I don't know which one came first, but if you listen to both you can hear the overlap in two completely different settings. Kinda neat!
Choiboy525 2 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Aaron Copland
I literally can't stop crying near the middle of this song, so beautiful :) Thanks Aaron Copland for writing the most emotional song in the world (also my junior year marching band show)
Apocalypze50874 4 weeks ago
This was the ballad of our marching band show. The original is very nice, except for that first apx. 2 minutes. its a bit of a bore.
meis2steph11 1 month ago
This video went viral on Riga
jackiecastro410 1 month ago
Really excellent video background - thank you for sharing!
atticustkam 1 month ago
Come mothers, come fathers...<3
Singliketom 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@tfwhaling3: bless you for creating this indescribably beautiful piece of art. I always listen to this piece on Thanksgiving, and I am very touch by the theme of gratitude and trust in the face of obstacles. We need this lesson very much now: to hope and take refuge in our optimism and agressively defend our spirits, and the spirits of our neighbors against the corrosion of sarcasm, fatalism, cynicism. Peace to all on this day of thanks.
bluejupiter100 2 months ago
There never was a song associated with Thanksgiving. Giving thanks is one theme in this song. Why not make this song that one?
TheJameslehr 2 months ago
Happy Birthday Aaron Copland! Born November 14, 1900~
MGSRaiden1232 2 months ago 3
Aaron Copland sounds like humanity. Thanks for the post.
rmpryor 2 months ago 3
Isn't this just a amazing piece? Pure Copland! Genius.
StiversGleek5 2 months ago in playlist Hip 3
We performed this song last year my sophomore year of high school, and Stomp Your Foot (also from The Tenderland) freshman year.
coPurple11ok 2 months ago
According to comments a year ago by the person who uploaded this video, the music was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, but he didn't remember the conductor. It was most likely conducted by Eugene Ormandy. I cannot find this particular version of the song on Napster or iTunes. No one plays the strings so sweetly as this version.
NorthCarolinaFan 2 months ago
aaron copland was proboly the best composer ive ever heard
dannylwwood 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Aaron Copland
our marching band is using this piece for our show music! its so pretty, im in love<3
marching band: The Pride of Haltom (2011) - "The Promise of Living"
falloutkidd212 3 months ago 3
this is my favorite copland piece
wtfozlolzrawrx3 4 months ago 2
Excellent, tremendous footage to a beautiful score. I loved every second of it. What it must of been like to capture such happy times. Cheers.
GrigoryanFilm 4 months ago
listening to this in a library and nearly burst into tears mid climax. holy beautiful batman.
paintmusic123 4 months ago
this is great music to rest to....
LongMoney04 4 months ago
what a great fucking piece of music
DeeZStankYNutZ 4 months ago in playlist Classical study playlist 3
Stunningly beautiful. Perhaps the greatest piece of music ever written.
varrick1226 4 months ago
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! I'm playing this piece next week and it's arranged for Wind Ensembles and now listening to the original I now have a better sense of the music!
MusicalLaoVlogger 4 months ago
So excited for my marching band show this year..(x
thespaz24 4 months ago
You did a great job with the old film reels.
micflor531313 4 months ago
God bless America and it's wonderful sons and daughters.
alexpjp 4 months ago
I have never commented on youtube before, and may never again; however, TFwhaling3, I had to say thank you. I love everything about this video. I really can't say it enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Even for individuals who don't understand classical, and don't understand the influence of folk music, history, etc. in the national identity of music, and the composers who write it, you make it clear through image. Thank you much. I'll show this to everyone.
bfleisch123 4 months ago
A simply MAGNIFICENT Work of Art! The video footage with this composition...to quote our youth is "off the hook"!!! Well done sir!
slurp503 4 months ago
This is a touching video set to amazingly warm much by a modern music master....Aaron Copland.
We love you Aaron where ever you are .You give so much beauty to the world.
Thanks for this video. I love it !
Doug G in LV
MrRelax3737 4 months ago
When I hear a piece of music by Copland, you can hear America in it. Copland knew how to capture the essence of American life in music. No other composer comes close.
MotownConnoisseur30 5 months ago
@MotownConnoisseur30 Adams comes close; but you're right about how wonderfully he captures the essence of the USA.
alexpjp 4 months ago
@MotownConnoisseur30 Adams comes close; but you're right about how wonderfully he captures the essence of the USA.
alexpjp 4 months ago
Adams does...
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Adams does...
alexpjp 4 months ago
I have never listened to classical music. But, this Fall I had to take a course Intro to music and if it was not for that class I most likely would have never listened to this type of music. I mean my favorite movie is Gone With the Wind, but that was as close as I had gotten. Now that I have listened to it I love it after chasing 3 kids around all day and always being on the run. It is great to release the tension!
emilynkoch82 5 months ago
@emilynkoch82 Hugs to you! :)
Glinkaism1 5 months ago
5:05 gives me goosebumps
demoltionman427 5 months ago
I love the trombone entrance!! Pirates and cowboys -Paul Jackson
demoltionman427 5 months ago
Oh, how I loved playing the part at 1:45 ... Tough at first, but beautifulll <3.
I also like the trumpet entrance around 2:45 ... It reminds me of someone. :3
freakinrayofsunshine 5 months ago
I play first clarinet. I hated this song when we first started it last year. Detested it. But then I listened to this. And FELL IN LOVE. Then my band director decided not to do it. -___- AND I WAS MAD. ... That's my story. Bye.
freakinrayofsunshine 5 months ago
Were playing a this and a few other songs in our marching show this year. Im in love with this piece now.
erincassidytyler9 5 months ago
Time and again I return to Copland, Maestro Copland.
brunojar1 5 months ago
My daughter was proposed to with this piece as background music!
rrjdnsmsaa 5 months ago 3
The sad thing is that living is not a promise anymore... Abortions should not happen.
I want the REAL America back...
AustinDaStarWarsGeek 5 months ago
@AustinDaStarWarsGeek Dude, really? This music is about the American dream and resiliency please keep your political views out of it.
chaleyedwards 5 months ago
I was proposed to with this piece as background music :).
Hosenfeld24601 5 months ago 57
@Hosenfeld24601 Yes you were! I love you :)
blendingbone 5 months ago 2
@Hosenfeld24601 You're off to a great start!
ikmarchini 3 months ago in playlist ikmarchini's favorites
Great recording of this piece and that giang swing at 4:02 like 50 people on it looks like it would be so much fun!
zach200cc 5 months ago
WOW!!!! what an astonishing piece of music.would'nt mind that being played at my funeral.
davieboy65 5 months ago
The juxtaposition of so much historic "home movie footage" with the music of Aaron Copland's "The Promise of Living" from "The Tender Land" sends a cozy Americana message. While it isn't always cozy in everyday reality, the dream of this coziness of living in America remains for us to pursue in our hearts, minds...and actions toward one another. Thanks for sharing this!!
tholley8215 6 months ago 2
I just wanted to comment on this video. I marched DCI, so I know this song well from Crown.
This video is possibly the most beautiful accompaniment to this song. Every time I heard The Promise of Living, I think of the American way of life, and the vast landscape that America has.
I just listened to this while reading a wikipedia article on Copland and it gave me goosebumps. THIS song is what Copland is all about,
HylianHero9 6 months ago
@HylianHero9 I have watched that show so many times, and i hope to one day march in Crown. The first 45 seconds get me every time
cbug565 6 months ago
For some reason this seems to be a piece of music that I can relate to... It's so beautiful!
TubaChick23 6 months ago
Why this has less views than a song by Rebecca Black has me stumped.
shannonxdenise 6 months ago
@shannonxdenise because good music isn't main stream :(
tydydpony93 6 months ago
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Southwestern Pennsylvania. After the season starts and we finish the show, I might have a video of us to put up.
RickenbackerBeatles 6 months ago
Our 2011 marching band show features music by Copland, and we are using this as our ballad. It's such a pretty piece and I can't wait until we play it. I play baritone and the beginning part, played here by violins, is a baritone solo, and it might be the prettiest piece of music I've played thus forth.
RickenbackerBeatles 6 months ago
@RickenbackerBeatles Ever sense i have seen Crown's show i have yearned to play this piece on the field. Where do you march?
cbug565 6 months ago
@cbug565 Johnstown High School. Our opener is "Appalachian Spring," and our closer will be "Happy Ending" from Copland's Red Pony score.
RickenbackerBeatles 6 months ago
@RickenbackerBeatles Damn, man you are so lucky, the baritone part in this that piece will be wicked. Where is Johnstown? I want to know in case i get to go see your show. I march euph in the Dripping Springs band, Texas.
cbug565 6 months ago
@cbug565 Please send it to me. I would love to be able to see it.
cbug565 6 months ago
heh.... The song and video combination gave me nostalgia for a time I never lived in.
xBallpark09 6 months ago
People are always what this world is about. The film herein and the music by Copland come close to a new national anthem. I cannot get over the beauty of this piece, or the Americana contained in every note. Copland was a gay man and a jew and I am sure he met up with his share of bullies, yet his music contains hope and love and a thankfulness for the country he lives in....incredible.
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America! THe great country ever!
micflor531313 6 months ago
When US and Canada were the promise lands of hope and prosperity.
Its a shame that they are now just a landing pads for people who dont want any ties and want to live in their villages and reap all the rewards that the past accomplished.
CanadaguyRudey1 6 months ago
so beautiful!
JulianKodak 6 months ago
Damn all the politics and name-calling! Can't we just gather for a few minutes in cyberspace and respect each other? Is this what people travelled thousands of miles over rough seas and fought in wars for...so we can sit on a computer and out-brag and insult one another!
Thank God for America and Aaron Copland. Period. And if you don't like what I say, flame away. I won't bother to answer!
bbdupon 6 months ago 12
@bbdupon Copland didn't believe in god. He was also gay. He was and is still one of the greats. But don't thank your god.
rmpryor 3 weeks ago
@rmpryor Don't be such a prick, just because you don't believe in God doesn't mean others can't.
DaGuitarSaxMan 3 weeks ago 2
@DaGuitarSaxMan Tell you what. As soon as the hypocritical religious sycophants STOP co-opting and STOP trying to shove their myths about invisible deities down my throat, I will stop being a "prick". Funny. When someone tries to co-opt and attribute something to their invisible murderer in the sky, totally ignoring EVERYTHING this composer ACTUALLY stood for, you call me the prick. Stop being a hypocrite and I shall stop being a "prick"
rmpryor 2 weeks ago
@rmpryor I don't see where religion was being shoved down your throat here, but if you want to play this game. "invisible murderer in the sky", Carbon Monoxide is a deadly gas(murderer) that you can't see (invisible) and is in the air (the sky). Now does someone like God seem far fetched? I am not shoving it down on you, but if you are going to be a blatant jerk about it all then I will fight with logic. Want a list of things that you can't see but believe in? Gravity, Air, etc...
DaGuitarSaxMan 2 weeks ago
@rmpryor Pardon me for not buying your view of the universe. Lighten up!
bbdupon 1 week ago
@bbdupon This an d adagio for strings are so beautiful. they just have a way of tugging, no, yanking at your heart strings.
puppybear1938 2 weeks ago
@bbdupon People don't fight in wars so we can have access to the internet...
theguywithnovideos1 2 weeks ago
thank you for your service...it ends here , you with your beliefs , us with ours.
Bush was right , the new guy hates America.
bruiserND 6 months ago
I'm a conservative Old BS and the parent of a combat veteran warrior with 53 Ranger missions under his belt. In summary STFU.
bruiserND 7 months ago
@bruiserND Well, I AM A COMBAT Veteran AND I don't believe for a minute that your son or I went down range just for oil. Plus, the constitution says, "With Permission from congress." Well, Bush had permission from congress and that is what every concervative I meet with twice a month says. so you STFU. I also work with sodiers on getting back into normal life when they return.
BigOldScout 6 months ago
four unconstitutional wars fought simultaneously over oil ....end the Empire now one of 18 returning U.S. veterans, on average, commits suicide each day.
bruiserND 7 months ago
@bruiserND Can't you just enjoy a nice bit of music without puking your liberal garbage. You need to get professional help.
BigOldScout 7 months ago
Just perfect. Just absolutely perfect. This could be the best piece of American music ever made. And the video is appropriate. Be sure to catch TPOL on the RCA collection with The Party Scene preceding it. Both come from the opera The Tender Land.
TheJameslehr 7 months ago 2
Wait!! do you guys think the hanging cars are swinging too much to the wind??
0:12
BafflinBook 7 months ago
Time sweetens memories. The one gift of old age.
The greatest gift is to appreciate the present.
micflor531313 7 months ago
Time sweetens memories. The one gift of old age.
micflor531313 7 months ago 2
Why does this make me want to cry..
tillster1423 7 months ago 2
@tillster1423 Agree I well up every time.
johnyzero2000 5 months ago
Aaron Copland just sounds like America. Perfect.
kl0441 7 months ago 14
I saw the Paul Hill Chorale perform The Promise of Living at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 1978. I was prepared for it but I saw many adults (men especially) who were reduced to tears by the time it ended. The choral version will always be more stirring than the purely orchestral rendition.
7927jackpark 7 months ago
I am a HUGE CrownFAN.
JackSparrow2600 8 months ago
When Ever I Watch This Video And Listen To This Music, It Reduces Me To Tears, In Only The Very Best Possible Way !!!
rrichmond72 8 months ago in playlist My First Play Choice 2
I thought I was familiar with all of Copland's music, but this beautiful collage introduced me to something new. By the way, THIS IS NOT A "SONG!". THERE WAS NO SINGING.
MichaelTrumpetPlayer 8 months ago
Life look so simple <3
purplelemonpeel 8 months ago 2
@TheSweetAndSourTeam You said it brother! So true!
slurp503 8 months ago
I wish those two nihilists who disliked this video would just commit suicide already...
azncommie97 8 months ago
lovely melody
jazzmunky 8 months ago 2
Those 2 dislikes break my heart.
E123Brawler 8 months ago 3
whenever I have hours and hours of papers to write, THIS SONG reminds me how great life is and how it's totally worth every hour of work for those genuinely blissful moments. Perfectly illustrated with the old footage. Thank you!
TheAnja1247 9 months ago
When I need a good cry, I come back to listen and watch. Thanks for posting.
gjchaf2 9 months ago
It's amazing how the past is preserved through these videos and beautiful music.
sofroniaful 9 months ago
5:06 = Jizz.
DrDestructo94 9 months ago
Congratulations, a lovely and effective montage to this score. The hymn "Walls of Zion" as an underpinning in the bass is very moving.
{To wallow in the hardship of one particular minority of those eras is egocentric and self-indulgent. Copland, son of Latvian Jewish emigrees, grew up in Brooklyn and was homosexual. Ergo, Let's have no more talk smack about black people, other minorities or lower classes back when... 99% of all people had it 'bad' if measured to current standards.}
MuseDuCafe 10 months ago 2
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Have to come back to this video every now and then - the music and images tell a story far too profound for me to grasp - if I didn't see the title to Copland's song it is as though I would have been able to guess it
f33d4ward 10 months ago
Have to come back to this video every now and then - the music and images tell a story far too profound for me to grasp - if I didn't see the title to Copland's song it is as though I would have been able to guess it
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Have to come back to this video every now and then - the music and images tell a story far too profound for me to grasp - if I didn't see the title to Copland's song it is as though I would have been able to guess it
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Have to come back to this video every now and then - the music and images tell a story far too profound for me to grasp - if I didn't see the title to Copland's song it is as though I would have been able to guess it
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f33d4ward 10 months ago
two people dont have souls
bassman31793 10 months ago
The greatest American Composer, ever.
EarlieGee 10 months ago 2
This is literally what music should and is all about.
itrollurvideos 10 months ago
Very engaging mix of sound and vision. A sense of remembrance.
yiblon 10 months ago
This is simply immaculate.
bigjcinsky 11 months ago 3
Copland is comfort. I find a home in his music.
MusicInvestigation 11 months ago 2
questa musica è di una incomparabile bellezza, intrisa di una dolce memoria nostalgica, un insieme di luce verso un orizzonte ormai lontano e fuggito...
carlo lamberti 2011
carlolamberti1 11 months ago
Wonderful, nostalgic pictures--- except if you were black or a person of color back then. A very different life for them.. They weren't allowed to sit in the good seats of those old trains; were banned from getting in many of those old carnivals and other places.
Let';s remember the good times, but don't forget they were always so good for all Americans.
divawriter 11 months ago
@divawriter
It wasn't so different, there were still the joys of childhood and family. That's something discrimination can never take away from you.
venomousspiderwookie 11 months ago
@divawriter you just can't enjoy the music and visuals, can you? 2 presidents have made formal apologies, laws were abolished, overturned or re-written...there's an entire month devoted to the movement and that's still not enough? Sorry....this is one of my favorite pieces of music and I thought the collage of visuals was very cool....and then I saw that someone simply HAD to inject a bit of cynisism...
greekteka 11 months ago
I absolutely love this. Thank you so much!!!!
azothdaco 11 months ago
This is without a doubt my favorite YouTube video of all time.
HylianHero9 11 months ago
Music like this is what America is about...I hear American song and singing here...I hear Stephen Foster and Charles Ives and Henry Thoreau and I feel the movement of time immemorial from Slavery Days to the camaraderie of World War 2 and the aftermath of 911. I hear the man and the woman and and think of the books of Thornton Wilder and Jack Kerouac. Copland understood something that is essential and basic about the American and he put it into notes.
This is the best of music.
fmazzar 11 months ago 17
@fmazzar I couldn't agree more!
alexpjp 4 months ago
I might have gone my whole life and missed this - thanks!
tonykeywest3 11 months ago 2
Beautiful. Thank you.
shive64 1 year ago
This is the best YouTube Video I have ever seen, A Classic !!!
rrichmond72 1 year ago 2
@rrichmond72 well done!
tonykeywest3 11 months ago
Ahhhh, a much simpler time =]
1414conor 1 year ago
This video is wonderful.
greatm1000 1 year ago
such a beautiful song. i cry everytime i hear this piece. i played this 3 years ago as the ballad with my high school marching band. Carolina Crown couldn't have done a better job with it in 09 in my opinion.
Jergy10 1 year ago
@Jergy10 Holy crap you cry at this thing too!!! Hell I'm rendered a total mess!
johnyzero2000 10 months ago
Which recording is this?
tzlive7 1 year ago
Chills City at 4:59-5:13. incredible
minnesotaguy12 1 year ago
Drum corps International is proud to present, CAROLINA CROOOOWNNNN!
OLGregg1337 1 year ago 64
Music is a promise of living
BFritz3000 1 year ago 4
Saw this with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Dallas. What a performance, you should have heard the audience roar when it finished. Probably not a dry eye in the great symphony hall. If this music does not wake us up, nothing ever will.
DansJets 1 year ago 2
Great images of a more innocent, less corrupt American time. This music always makes me cry--the lost part of me??
windstorm1000 1 year ago
Absolutely, movingly beautiful. I often took Promise of Living on choral tours of Europe.
This is the best of us. Many, many thanks.
The promise of living
The promise of growing
The promise of ending
Is labor and sharing and loving.
ikmarchini 1 year ago
This is so inspiring and edifying for me.
tomims 1 year ago
the Fabulous Philadelphians!....Fuggin Copland rocks...
7Beyonder 1 year ago
Thank you.
DrexelCapital 1 year ago
I'm coming in late but I see references to the '84 Santa Clara Vanguard show. We saw it at Spartan Stadium, right at the 50, half-way up the stands. Just utterly fantastic and highly emotional.
bobareebop 1 year ago
I heard the melody of Zion's Walls within the first two minutes.
seizetheday224 1 year ago
Can I somewhere download the sheet music of this piece. Can someone please help me? thank you
sop1006 1 year ago
this song is just soooo emotionally overpowering... especially at 5:00...
tydydpony93 1 year ago
Stunningly beautiful. I haven't been touched this deeply in a long time. The combination of the film footage and music struck me in ways I thought I had lost a while ago.
indianajoe12 1 year ago
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The most beautiful video in Youtube
Petrokwstas 1 year ago
The most Beautiful video in Youtube!!!
Petrokwstas 1 year ago
The Grass Is Always Greener
Tedtastic7 1 year ago 69
damn straight ted
sharpdemon 1 year ago
@Tedtastic7 hahaha. I knew someone would :)
GuillermoMontecelo 1 year ago
@Tedtastic7 Maybe not Greener, but certainly simpler and less stress filled.
What a glorious piece of music and the pics are so appropriate.
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OLGregg1337 1 year ago
@Tedtastic7 That is so lame!!!!! Ughhhhh, more like "The American West" Cadets 1996. All the classical buffs are like "What the hell are they talking about"
TubaDan098 1 year ago
I'm just impressed by how universally well received this video is, not one person is able to dislike this video. I have never seen one with over 60,000 views and not a single dislike. That alone conveys what we, as Americans, truly wish for in our hearts. Losing all of our material, but keeping the ones we love close, and the promise of living closest of all. With Thanksgiving.
skykid 1 year ago 2
Heard this with the great Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Dallas, at symphony hall.
The orchestra really roared at the end of this great Copland work. Hearing all those instruments working together to the great climax of this piece was heart touching.
The audience roared at the end, as the symphony all stood.
DansJets 1 year ago
I love that footage of the little boy holding his baby brother you can tell he's proud of him.
johnyzero2000 1 year ago
It's simply Copland. Look, learn, and love his mood. Feel America, for all the promises our grandparents wanted to give us. Don't let them down, all they gave.
Joohhvis 1 year ago
I think I heard a bit of "Zion's Walls" in there.
seizetheday224 1 year ago
Beutiful
grumpyhunter 1 year ago
alan silvestry must be influennced by copland
kokomanation 1 year ago
I find it so bittersweet that for so many, this is so "American", representing of values "long gone by", yet does anyone here realize Copeland himself was gay? I am not suggesting by any means this fact undermines his work-but rather enriches it.
Sarahmadre09 1 year ago 5
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To bad you had to bring that up,,, now all Christians will think that he was defective, despite all of the great music he has given us !!
rrichmond72 1 year ago
@rrichmond72
I won't, for what its worth. Christian or not, one isjudged by what they do in this world. Plus the bible says we shouldn't be judging in the first place. Thank you for the music Copland!
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Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
rrichmond72 1 year ago
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@rrichmond72 - Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
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@Sarahmadre09
Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
rrichmond72 1 year ago
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@Sarahmadre09
Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
rrichmond72 1 year ago
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@Sarahmadre09
Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
rrichmond72 1 year ago
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@Sarahmadre09
Exactly, Christians seem to think that one day a person wakes up and says to himself / herself,,, Oh I think I will be a homosexual... They don't seem to understand that being a homosexual is who they are not what they are. It is as natural for a Homosexual to be a Homosexual as it is for a Heterosexual to be a Heterosexual. That is how God put them here...
rrichmond72 1 year ago
This is such a beautiful piece, very touching. Thanks for sharing. We all need to reflect and live simple and appreciate what we all have in these times of great stress. The dogs at the end really touch our hearts, as I look at my beautiful Golden and give him a big hug. Thanks again.
DansJets 1 year ago